Willfully retaining classified documents in an unclassified area and refusing to return them when asked, are all things that endanger everyone living in the US. Leakage of a Top Secret document can cause extreme damage to our national security. That is the definition of a document classified as that level.
If you knowingly put the country in danger by exposing highly classified information to a massive security breach, then you may not call yourself a spy, but you are certainly doing the work of one.
That is why these actions are explicitly detailed in the Espionage Act.
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Willfully retaining classified documents in an unclassified area and refusing to return them when asked, are all things that endanger everyone living in the US. Leakage of a Top Secret document can cause extreme damage to our national security. That is the definition of a document classified as that level.
If you knowingly put the country in danger by exposing highly classified information to a massive security breach, then you may not call yourself a spy, but you are certainly doing the work of one.
That is why these actions are explicitly detailed in the Espionage Act.
BTW, the article is behind a paywall. You may want to add a link to get around it.
This is an objective answer that you can’t argue against in good faith. Like him or hate him, you argued with nothing but cold hard facts.
Nicely said.
Republicans don’t care. They will just reply with nonsense whataboutism
Updated with link to remove paywall.